Plato, Alcibiades 1, section 112a

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[112a] about just and unjust men or things?

Alcibiades
Far from it, on my word, Socrates.

Socrates
In fact, they differ most especially on these points?

Alcibiades
Very much so.

Socrates
And I suppose you never yet saw or heard of people differing so sharply on questions of health or the opposite as to fight and kill one another in battle because of them.

Alcibiades
No, indeed.

Socrates
But on questions of justice or injustice I am sure you have;

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.

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